Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quotes

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

You don't kill your way to peace.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

Peace is a human right and those who deny you peace are those who are violating an essential right.

There shall be prohibition of fighting and bloodshed among the various communities of the state.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

Peace should be our future.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Peace is produced by war.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.